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HistoryJun 21, 2012 - 12:00 a.m.

CVE-2011-1021

2012-06-2100:00:00
ubuntu.com
ubuntu.com
6

3.6 Low

CVSS2

Access Vector

LOCAL

Access Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

PARTIAL

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P

0.0004 Low

EPSS

Percentile

5.3%

drivers/acpi/debugfs.c in the Linux kernel before 3.0 allows local users to
modify arbitrary kernel memory locations by leveraging root privileges to
write to the /sys/kernel/debug/acpi/custom_method file. NOTE: this
vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2010-4347.

Bugs

Notes

Author Note
apw note that CONFIG_ACPI_DEBUG must be off before the fixing commit and CONFIG_ACPI_CUSTOM_METHOD must be off after it. Confirmed off in all cases, and CONFIG_ACPI_CUSTOM_METHOD is enforced off.

3.6 Low

CVSS2

Access Vector

LOCAL

Access Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

PARTIAL

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P

0.0004 Low

EPSS

Percentile

5.3%